tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-482385456117655188.post8873504279166829595..comments2023-07-16T11:18:33.113-04:00Comments on a wilderness of machines: "I see the universe..."Pittmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10356400201266291749noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-482385456117655188.post-24768701939851462592009-07-21T11:42:25.595-04:002009-07-21T11:42:25.595-04:00Very much so. The very existence of the show is a ...Very much so. The very existence of the show is a sort of acknowledgment of it's own limited and comical reach. Anything that is done in an apparent effort to branch out beyond the shows own trite medium is (I think) done with complete and full knowledge of that specific action's own futility in relation to the viewers perception and acceptance. <br /><br />Ultimately it seems that one could dance around back and forth with this notion for eternity. So with that being said I usually like to rest my mind with the assumption that the show is of course completely aware, and it after some time just simply began to care less if the viewer believed it or not. By the time Cavel's speech came around in the context of the series, it really felt like the plane had already lifted off the ground and begun to fly into a new aerial territory we've yet to see in either the sci-fi or TV drama medium. <br /><br />The show knows that 2001 already said it, and it knows that it's an outdated concept but it against it's own safeguarding awareness still strives for a perfection in the contextualization of the concept.Pittmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10356400201266291749noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-482385456117655188.post-65210004672437347702009-07-16T14:46:01.994-04:002009-07-16T14:46:01.994-04:00Dude, the system's gotten too smart for you, i...Dude, the system's gotten too smart for you, it's rebelling...<br />So would you say that Cavel's speech is not just a metaphor for man's quest to become greater than he was designed to be, a la <i>2001</i>, but also a metaphor for the show's frustration at its own inevitably limited reach/scope?Natehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00749045333523431710noreply@blogger.com